Modeling of Cloud/Radiation Processes for Cirrus Cloud Formation

This technical report includes five reprints and pre-prints of papers associated with the modeling of cirrus cloud and radiation processes as well as remote sensing of cloud optical and microphysical properties from an airborne spectrometer based on radiative transfer principles. The time-dependent two-dimensional cirrus model includes a second-order turbulence closure scheme, an advanced interactive radiative transfer scheme, and ice microphysics parameterization. This model is used to understand the physical processes governing the formation and evolution of cirrostratus clouds.